In her annual report to Parliament, Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart says many Canadians have lost their jobs, missed out on professional or academic opportunities or been suspended from school over online correspondence they mistakenly believed was private, such as wall posts on social networking sites.
So she's urging Canadians, particularly young people who live much of their lives online, to think twice about what they post on the Internet in an effort to secure their own privacy. Stoddart has made such issues a focus of her recent work. Earlier this year, she completed an investigation into Facebook's privacy policies, which spurred the company to make a series of changes to its operations.
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